Contributors and Reviewers

F. Maurice Speed; (1911–1998)

An English film critic who created two innovative and
long-lasting publications: the listings magazine What's
On in London (which ran from 1935 until 2007) and
later the Film Review annual,
which began in 1944 and in 2014 celebrated its 69th edition. James
Mason was a close personal friend.

James Cameron-Wilson

Film
critic, broadcaster and wordsmith. Forbidden from watching movies as a
child, he decided to be a professional film critic and began reviewing
for What's on in London. He has since reviewed
for Sky
TV, BBC radio, Talk Radio, the What's On Magazine Group, Film Review, The Times, The London Paper
and Filmstar.
He currently reviews all the new releases on Share Radio every
Friday on The Business
of Film, with Simon Rose firing the questions.

Email: CameronWilsonJ@gmail.com

Mansel Stimpson

Mansel
Stimpson is a life-long lover of cinema who first wrote reviews for the
British Federation of Film Societies and has long been chair of the
Eastbourne Film Society. As a professional reviewer he contributed to
several sources, but most significantly to What's
On In London as
reviewer and interviewer for some 20 years until the magazine closed.
For the past eight years he has been chief reviewer and co-editor of
the annual Film Review. In addition to writing
many articles on classical music he has also published his memoir No
Drum To Beat.

Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing
Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead,
the magazine of the University of North
London School of Librarianship, TheSurrealist,
the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the
Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A
freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film,
Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie
Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing
Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten
years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On In London
as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late
F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review
annual) as the magazine’s Editor. He has worked with both Maurice Speed
and James Cameron-Wilson, executive editor of Film Review
annual, and also with Mansel Stimpson who contributed to both What’s
On and Montage. As well as writing about
films, he has also reviewed theatre for The Stage
newspaper, and currently writes about music theatre and cabaret for the
Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review
websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon
website. He now contributes restaurant reviews to the TripAdvisor website.

Contact: michaeldarvell736@gmail.com

George
Savvides

George obtained a BA (Honours) in
Drama, Art History and
Film Studies at Middlesex University before he trained as an actor at
the Royal
Welsh College of Music & Drama. His most recent film roles
include Hassan Ali in
Papadopoulos & Sons and
Gilles
Montand in The Honourable Rebel. He
is also the co-producer and one of the judges for the International
Playwriting
Festival. He started writing film reviews for The
Leeds Guide before he became the main film critic for Parikiaki- The Greek Weekly. He has been
a contributor to Film Review Annual
since 2006.